Greta Gerwig, Taraji P. Henson & Andra Day Among Time’s 2024 Women Of The Year
deadline.comThe arts are well represented on Time magazine’s annual Women of the Year list, with the class of ’24 including actor, writer and director Greta Gerwig, actor Taraji P.
Henson and singer, songwriter and actor Andra Day. The list of 12 women was announced this morning. Also included on the roster tennis player Coco Gauff; Global CEO of Chanel Leena Nair; co-founder and leader of the Israeli movement Women Wage Peace Yael Admi; founder and director of Women of the Sun Reem Hajajreh; president and chairwoman of nonprofit Nadia’s Initiative Nadia Murad; medical scientist and professor of research on hyperemesis gravidarum Marlena Fejzo; founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project Jacqui Patterson; poet Ada Limón; and economic historian and labor economist Claudia Goldin.
The Time list is designed to recognize “extraordinary leaders working toward a more equal world.” Regarding Barbie director Gerwig, who is featured on the cover of the magazine’s Women of the Year issue, Time’s West Coast editor Sam Lansky said, “Gerwig’s story is as much about commerce as it is about art: Her films are humane, emotional, and playful; she is the only director in history to have their first three solo feature films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. “Yet her movies also clean up at the box office,” he continued, adding, “her semi autobiographical solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, grossed $79 million against a $10 million budget; her next, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, was budgeted at $40 million and took in $231 million—both extraordinary returns on investment.
These commercial triumphs reflect how her work resonates in the culture, particularly among women and girls, whose emotional
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